Dortmund beats Leverkusen 3-0 to go back top in Bundesliga

Borussia Dortmund maintain their ideal 5-0 record, by inflicting Leverkusen the third straight loss in Bundesliga, to recapture the first place from Bayern Munich in the standings.

“We knew beforehand that we needed an absolute top performance”.

With Marco Reus, Kagawa, Aubeymeyang there is plenty of attacking talent here and that has been evident from the start of the season as Borussia have been goal happy scoring fifteen goals in four games.

On the first goal, Leverkusen keeper Bernd Leno did a awful job of calculating a ball that was thrown in to the box by Shinji Kagawa and hopped over it leaving himself exposed for Jonas Hofmann to simply slot it into the empty net.

Earlier in the day, Schalke 04 narrowly beat Stuttgart 1-0 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena to leave them without a win this season.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang then converted from the spot on 74 minutes to wrap up the three points for BVB Dortmund, who made it five wins from five to lead Bayern München on goal differnce in the standings.

Leverkusen, who responded after back-to-back league defeats to Bayern and Darmstadt with a 4-1 win over BATE Borisov of Belarus in the Champions League on Wednesday, are waiting on the fitness of captain Lars Bender, Sven’s twin brother, after he suffered a badly bruised knee in that victory.

Arturo Vidal, Kingsley Coman and Sebastian Rode claimed their first goals of the season with Munich’s star forward Robert Lewandowski injured and Mueller on the bench.

Stuttgart are on zero points along with Borussia Moenchengladbach who have also lost their opening five league matches. Coach Lucien Favre resigned on Sunday night. Further chances would come for Dortmund, but the game would ultimately end with the score at 3-0 to the former champions. He was eventually replaced by Adrian Ramos with ten minutes remaining.

Hamburg were held to a goalless draw at home to Eintracht Frankfurt while Mainz are seventh after Friday’s 3-0 win at home to Hoffenheim when midfielder Yunus Malli claimed a hat-trick.